This email is in regard to our conversation about
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) funding the
Saskatoon Engineering Society while it is engaged in religious discrimination against people who aren't Christian. I have forwarded you my emails to Saskatoon
Engineering Society about this. I want
APEGS to totally stop funding Saskatoon Engineering Society.
Saskatoon Engineering Society is having an annual
Christmas party. I wouldn't go to a
Christmas party because I don't want to participate in celebrations of a
holiday or religion I don't believe in and because I oppose many of the beliefs
of Christianity. I find it offensive
that a supposedly secular organization like Saskatoon Engineering Society would
be promoting a religious holiday.
People argue that Christmas is secular to non-Christians,
but the non-Christians they’re talking about are mostly of Christian ancestry
and the same can be said about all religious holidays. Hanukkah is secular to non-Jews who are of
Jewish ancestry and Eid al-Fitr is secular to non-Muslims who are of Muslim
ancestry, but Saskatoon Engineering Society isn't having parties for Hanukkah
or Eid al-Fitr. Saskatoon Engineering
Society is giving preferential treatment to the Christian holiday. People who aren't Christian who think it's
okay to give preferential treatment to Christmas/Christianity are willing to
accept the tyranny of the majority and should have more honor, self-esteem, and
dignity.
Saskatoon Engineering Society is receiving funding from
the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan,
the organization that the government has entrusted with regulating the
engineering profession in Saskatchewan, so it has an obligation to keep its
events secular.
I don't understand why executives in Saskatoon
Engineering Society feel the need to mention their religious holiday Christmas
in the name of the event. Why wouldn't
Saskatoon Engineering Society keep it secular?
Saskatoon Engineering Society isn't a church. Saskatoon Engineering Society executives can
promote their religion and religious holiday to their hearts' desire on their
own without using Saskatoon Engineering Society.
Saskatoon Engineering Society is giving preferential
treatment to Christmas/Christianity, which makes religious minorities and
atheists feel like their beliefs are considered second class or not as
important. Saskatoon Engineering Society
should stick to engineering, not religion.
Considering the extremely diverse make-up of the
engineering profession, I'll bet the majority of Saskatoon Engineering Society
members are not Christian or of Christian ancestry and don't celebrate
Christmas. How would the executives of
Saskatoon Engineering Society like if Saskatoon Engineering Society promoted an
annual Scientologist party or annual Sikh party and no party from any other
religion?
I didn't attend their Christmas party is because I don’t
celebrate a Christian holiday like Christmas and I don't appreciate them using
an engineering society to give preferential treatment to their Christian
holiday after I've repeatedly complained about this to them. Now they don't even bother responding to my
complaints. As professional engineers,
they should show more professionalism in respecting diversity, especially
considering most of their organization isn't even Christian.
This isn't a Christian country. It's a secular multireligious country. Indigenous people were forcibly indoctrinated
into Christianity in residential schools.
Now nobody should be pushed into observing Christianity and the
Christian holiday. The Saskatoon
Engineering Society should respect everybody instead of giving preferential
treatment to Christianity.
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists
of Saskatchewan wouldn't fund Saskatoon Engineering Society if it was engaged
in white supremacy, so why is it funding Saskatoon Engineering Society when it
is engaged in Christian supremacy?
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan
should immediately stop funding Saskatoon Engineering Society.
